2017-10-16

Skipping the Dark, Marvel Superheroes Go Straight to Horror

How popular is horror amid a decline in social mood? Marvel is launching a trilogy of movies centered around younger mutants (in the vein of X-Men). Instead of typical superhero fare of heroes and comic quips, the movies will all fall in the horror genre.

These are all going to be horror movies, and they’re all be their own distinct kind of horror movies. This is certainly the ‘rubber-reality’ supernatural horror movie. The next one will be a completely different kind of horror movie.

Our take was just go examine the horror genre through comic book movies and make each one its own distinct sort of horror film. Drawing from the big events that we love in the comics.

Discussing horror, the author of the article writes:

With horror undergoing a sort of popular renaissance, appealing to more types of audiences than ever (including yours truly), it’s smart for Boone to tap into the horror zeitgeist. It and Get Out are two of 2017’s biggest blockbusters and the success of the high concept slasher Happy Death Day over the weekend suggest that The New Mutants is on to something.

The marketing of the next Marvel superhero movie to hit theaters sticks with the tried and true formula: